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IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

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301 points nogajun | 3 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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kleiba ◴[16 Nov 25 13:48 UTC] No.45945131[source]▶
Long-time (25+ years) Emacs user. The first thing I do on a new installation is turn off the GUI features (like, menus and toolbars) - no-one I know who uses Emacs uses the mouse.
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1. femiagbabiaka ◴[16 Nov 25 14:09 UTC] No.45945260[source]▶
VSCode users, especially new ones, do. The best property of Emacs is that you can modify the lisp machine to do whatever you want.
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2. pxc ◴[16 Nov 25 15:50 UTC] No.45945957[source]▶
If you use an editor or IDE at work for a year, you might work with it for a thousand hours that first year alone. But a noisy GUI like VSCode's is optimized for just that first 30 minutes of playing around.

For me, at least, that kind of thing doesn't end up being very enjoyable long-term.

3. DonaldPShimoda ◴[17 Nov 25 00:40 UTC] No.45949887[source]▶
> the lisp machine

I wonder whether this was intentional or a coincidence, but for others (and maybe you) the "Lisp Machine" was a real hardware architecture unrelated to emacs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine